An Excerpt from Chapter One
ONE TWO ONE TWO
a ghost story
a ghost story
CHAPTER ONE
“Captain William Sleeman is a real person. Google him, I’m not lying!”
“I believe you,” Bill replied.
“High up in the British Government, a Superintendent. A powerful man,” Henny said. “His major undertaking was to eradicate India of its Thuggee problem. His life-long ambition, an obsession. A feat he at first underestimated.”
“I said, I believe you.”
“He eyed the prisoners looking back at him through the wood post bars. Knotty dead branches tied together to resemble a cage. Five men accused of being Thuggees, huddled in one corner of what was more a dovecote than a jail. An old wagon pulled by a team of white, old and tired, long horned beasts. Skinny ones, yoked as a team, chewing their cud.”
Excerpt taken from ONE TWO ONE TWO
CHAPTER ONE
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